Walter Ullmann’s Political Thought of Ascending and Descending Themes: An Introduction of The Principles of Government and Politics in the Middle Ages

Abstract

The Ascending and Descending Themes of Government in The Principles of Government and Politics in the Middle Ages is the basic insights of century political thought of Jewish scholar Walter Ullmann. Jewish ancestry has a great influence on Ullmann’s political thought. It is undoubtedly a great success that he only used two kinds of civil rights and theocratic power in the introduction to an essay from the macroscopic Angle sum up nearly one thousand years of political evolution of the middle ages in Western Europe, the outline of the "civil rights and political power - the theocratic monarchy - constitutionalism kingship" the Western Europe in the middle ages the thread of political evolution for one thousand years. But it should be dialectically treated that Ullmann has a lack of comprehensive research topic in this introduction and make far-fetched induced defects in the introduction to the theory and the historical facts.